Message dependent synchronization

Author

Vinck, A.J. ; Schweikert, R. ; Foerster, H.P.

Author_Institution

Inf.-Commun. Theory, Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

1988

fDate

28 Nov-1 Dec 1988

Firstpage

1183

Abstract

The authors describe a synchronization method for short length words that uses message dependent synchronization digits. To each message to be transmitted, redundant digits at the encoder side are assigned. The redundant digits depend on two neighbor messages and are chosen so that at the decoder side maximum separation can be detected between the synchronized and unsynchronized modes. They analyze the decoding performance for transmission over an AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) channel with synchronization transition errors. If the length of the messages is taken as equal to 8, then the method can be used to achieve symbol synchronization for length-255 Reed-Solomon codes. Simulation results are given for hard as well as soft decision decoding

Keywords

decoding; encoding; synchronisation; AWGN channels; additive white Gaussian noise; algorithm; decoder; decoding performance; encoder; hard decision decoding; length-255 Reed-Solomon codes; message dependent synchronization; redundant digits; short length words; simulation results; soft decision decoding; symbol synchronization; synchronization transition errors; Communications technology; Decoding; Error correction; Information rates; Parity check codes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1988, and Exhibition. 'Communications for the Information Age.' Conference Record, GLOBECOM '88., IEEE

Conference_Location

Hollywood, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1988.26020

Filename

26020